Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Religion in history, society & culture
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Religion in history, society & culture.
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Note |
Originally presented as the author's Ph. D. thesis, Loyola University of Chicago, 2001. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index. |
Contents |
Ch. 1. Las Abejas and the Acteal Massacre -- The 1992 Formation of Las Abejas -- On the Violent Path to Acteal -- December 22, 1997: Bury My Heart in Acteal -- The Three Acteals: A Paradigm for Las Abejas Identity -- Developing a Syncretic Organization -- Ch. 2. Methodological and Theoretical Frameworks -- A Syncretic Standpoint -- Doing Fieldwork in Dangerous Places -- Research as Collaboration and Bridge Building -- The Open Fields of Chiapas Research -- Syncretic and Other Types of Identity Constructions -- Religious Collective Identities -- Cultural Identity in Movement -- Resistance to Neoliberalism in Mexico -- Ch. 3. The Struggle for Land and Dignity in Chiapas -- A Double Marginalization: Poor and Indigenous -- Understanding Chiapas, the Highlands and Chenalho -- The Tzotziles and Indigenous People of Chiapas -- Neoliberalism Effects on Land -- A Double Root of Identity: Land and Dignity -- The Land Is Our Mother: How Can They Sell Our Mother? -- We Resist Because of Our Dignity! -- Ch. 4. The Juxtaposed Meanings of Acteal -- The Intercommunitarian Conflict Interpretation -- The Counterinsurgency Interpretation -- Violent Meanings of Acteal: Paramilitary Presence -- Political Meanings of Acteal: Military Presence -- Cultural Meanings of Acteal: Tierra Sagrada -- Religious Meanings of Acteal: Los Martires -- Gender Meanings of Acteal: An Attack against Life -- Nonviolent Meanings of Acteal: Civiles as an Easy Target -- Global Meanings of Acteal: Mirror and Center of the World -- Ch. 5. The Cultural and Religious Frameworks of Las Abejas -- Cultural Framework: Las Abejas as a Maya-Indigenous Movement -- Religious Framework: Las Abejas as a Progressive Religious Movement -- Inculturation Dimension: Toward an Autochthonous Tzotzil Church -- Ecumencal Dimension: Costumbristas, Catolicos y Evangelicos -- Participation Dimension: Catechists' New Role and Method -- Liberation Dimension: The 1974 Indigenous Congress -- Mobilization Dimension: The Formation of Pueblo Creyente -- Ch. 6. The Political and Human Rights Frameworks of Las Abejas -- Political Framework: Las Abejas as a Neozapatista Movement -- Twenty Years Later: The Same Demands -- Las Abejas as a Neozapatista Movement -- Las Abejas as a Civil Society -- Human Rights Framework: Las Abejas as an Indigenous Rights Movement -- Ch. 7. Las Abejas' Construction of Nonviolent Resistance -- Nonviolent Resistance as Political Contention -- Memory of Resistance: Continuing 500 Years of Resistance -- The Presence of International Human Rights Observers -- The Accompaniment of Christian Peacemaker Teams -- Developing Nonviolent Consciousness and Strategies -- The Gender of Resistance: Women's Double Front of Resistance -- Ch. 8. Las Abejas' Syncretic Identity of Resistance -- Bringing Syncretism Back In -- Syncretic Identity as Resistance -- Las Abejas' Syncretic Identity of Resistance -- Constructing the Circle of Syncretic Identity -- Contributions of a Syncretic Identity of Resistance -- Conclusion: Never Again a World without Us. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Abejas (Organization)
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Abejas (Organization) |
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Tzotzil Indians -- Government relations.
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Tzotzil Indians -- Ethnic identity.
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Chiapas (Mexico) -- History -- Peasant Uprising, 1994-
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Pacifism -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
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Acteal Massacre, Acteal, Mexico, 1997.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. |
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Pacifism. |
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Tzotzil Indians -- Government relations. |
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Mexico -- Acteal. |
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Mexico -- Chiapas. |
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Peasant Uprising (Chiapas, Mexico : 1994- ) |
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Acteal Massacre (Acteal, Mexico : 1997) |
Chronological Term |
Since 1994 |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Tavanti, Marco, 1965- Abejas 0415942152 (DLC) 2002006955 (OCoLC)49805882 |
ISBN |
9781135378479 (electronic bk.) |
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1135378479 (electronic bk.) |
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1306404509 (ebk) |
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9781306404501 (ebk) |
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9781135378400 (e-book) |
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1135378401 |
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9780203954164 (electronic bk.) |
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0203954165 (electronic bk.) |
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0415942152 |
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9780415942157 |
Standard No. |
40008721498 |
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